04.1 - Aerospace Grade Materials, Structural Analysis, Fatigue and Damage Tolerance
ULTRASONIC NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING: SYSTEM SELECTION FOR CHARACTERISATION AND DETECTION OF DEFECTS IN REPAIRED COMPOSITE MATERIALS
H.R. Spratling¹, M.E. Ibrahim¹; ¹Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia
This paper presents a study of the effect of ultrasonic non-destructive inspection system selection on the rndetection and sizing of defects in repaired polymer-matrix composite materials. We provide a quantitative study rnof the variance due to ultrasonic test parameters and arrays on the sizing of epoxy-repaired delaminations, and rnthe detection of barely visible impact damage (BVID).
DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0861